Sul confine tra umano e animale. La festa di Etzalcualiztli e l’ambiente lacustre di Mexico Tenochtitlan

This article deals with investigating the construction and exploration of the ontological boundary between humans and animals through the analysis of some rituals that took place during the veintena festival of Etzalcualiztli in the lake environment of Mexico Tenochtitlan. Through the perspective of the so-called “Ontological Turn” - and in particular through the proposals of Philippe Descola and Tim Ingold – the aim of this essay is to read rituals as dynamic tool capable of manufacturing a complex dialectic with the lake environment, which also reverberates on the representation of the social group and its norms.